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Add to that a number of legal issues courts weigh to award custody and child custody cases can become daunting.

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As the nine justices grappled with the technological complexities of email data storage, liberals Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor questioned whether the court needed to act in the data privacy case in light of Congress now considering bipartisan legislation that would resolve the legal issue.

According to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), a firm has to procure a court order before repossessing a vehicle belonging to a member of the military, a law that was established to protect soldiers and other military personnel from having to deal with legal issues while they're actively serving.

Justice Department lawyers argued in court earlier this month that the federal guidelines issued in May were non-binding with no legal consequences.

Top executives at Uber used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified in court this week, setting up what could be the first major legal test of the issues raised by the use of encrypted apps inside companies.

A major question in that litigation was whether Texas had legal standing to sue, an issue that the Supreme Court did not resolve.

And on top of those 70 lawsuits, there are actions in state courts and at least one legal issue abroad.

The court specifically noted that this was not a final determination of the issue and that discovery would be needed to fully resolve the legal question, which we think should be decided in our favor when all of the evidence is in.

Same sex marriage is now legal in 36 states, and the Supreme Court will issue a final ruling on whether such couples have a federal right to marry in June.

Law enforcement officials who believe that notification would jeopardize an investigation should obtain an appropriate court order or other valid legal process that specifically precludes Member notification, such as an order issued pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2705 (b).

He has also Chaired the Tax Section's Civil and Criminal Tax Penalties Committee, which addresses issues relating to all aspects of criminal and civil tax controversy throughout the country and served on the Section's Committee on Appointments to the U.S. Tax Court as well as serving as Vice-Chair, IRS Liaison of the Section's Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Committee.

While the California investigators who may have found the Golden State Killer concluded that their novel approach was legal, courts have barely begun to explore these issues.

Non-competition agreements can be a thorny legal issue and are often the subject of court cases between buyers and sellers after a business is sold.

She practices in the areas of insurance, general litigation and medical - legal issues and has appeared before all levels of court in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

«It actually presents a relatively clean issue for the court,» said Lawrence M. Noble, a former top lawyer at the Federal Election Commission who is now the general counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, a watchdog group.

Ever since the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other trade groups began filing lawsuits to overturn the Labor Department's fiduciary rule in 2016, legal experts have speculated the issue would ultimately find its way to the Supreme Court.

«The Court is not persuaded by the Government's argument that there can not or should not be any defense of justification or necessity merely because the conduct at issue, i.e., abortion, is legal as a matter of positive law.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

Update (Jan. 16): Pakistan's Supreme Court has dismissed a final appeal in against Rimsha Masih in her blasphemy case, effectively ending all legal proceedings on the issue.

What availed as the common wisdom of mankind until the day before yesterday — for example, that man, woman, mother, and father name natural realities as well as social roles, that children issue naturally from their union, that the marital union of man and woman is the foundation of human society and provides the optimal home for the flourishing of children — all this is now regarded by many as obsolete and even hopelessly bigoted, as court after court, demonstrating that this revolution has profoundly transformed even the meaning of reason itself, has declared that this bygone wisdom now fails even to pass the minimum legal threshold of rational cogency.

The statement suggested two legal remedies: first, the Supreme Court could reverse Roe, returning the issue to the states; second, the nation could pass a constitutional amendment that would extend Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process protection to unborn persons.

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

Now court watchers are assessing whether the unusually straightforward legal case in Utah likely makes it, as NPR suggests, «the case that forces the high court to wrestle [directly] with the big issue.»

Appointed in 1986, Scalia has been on the Court long enough to have tackled virtually every important legal issue of our day: abortion, religious liberty, race and gender equality, gay rights, and separation of powers, among others.

The case of Paul Boe — a minister found guilty of contempt of court for refusing to testify about what he saw at Wounded Knee — poses some significant legal and theological problems with some wider implications of the clergy confidentiality issue.

«32 Just as Puritanism had the effect of making every issue a moral question, so also, as Pound noted, did every moral question become a legal question.33 The notion of «contempt of court,» as found in English and American law, illustrates the point well:

He said that Burroughs had been sworn in before Circuit Court Judge Arthur Dunne issued a stay order on Washington appointments that were approved May 9 by the City Council and that the Netsch appointment, approved June 6, was not covered by the order and not subject to a legal challenge.

The legal dispute in court was about two issues: (1) whether or not it could be said that parliament had given its approval already, and (2) if it hadn't, did it need to.

In the last year, Schneiderman's profile has risen as his office has sought to flex its legal muscle in filing court challenges to various policies pursued by President Donald Trump's administration, ranging from environmental issues to immigration.

However, on procedural grounds, he tends to vote pro-choice on Supreme Court justices and spending issues (he is against abortions but for the government paying for them as long as they are legal).

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen&raLegal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen&ralegal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

Given the number of legal challenges to President Trump's actions, it's not unforeseeable that a Congressman will bring this issue to the federal courts.

Judges who will be manning these courts will receive regular training to give them a better appreciation of the legal issues involved in illegal mining to enable them to handle cases efficiently in their courts and impose sentences commensurate with the offences.

The courts managed to delay accepting the case or issuing any written statement until the expired statute of limitations gave them a legal way to refuse it outright.

If Schroeder was banking on long - standing legal issues dogging Brown, last week's court developments thrust another obstacle in his path.

Lynch has taken the Piagentini legal - standing issue to court, and last week a State Supreme Court judge delayed the April 17 release of court, and last week a State Supreme Court judge delayed the April 17 release of Court judge delayed the April 17 release of Bell.

Grandparents, cousins and similarly close relations of people in the United States should not be prevented from coming to the country under Trump's travel ban, a federal appeals court has ruled in another legal defeat for the administration on the contentious issue.

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard.»

The White House is examining several options — including issuing a new executive order or continuing its legal battle — for how to proceed on its immigration policy after a setback dealt by the courts last week, top White House adviser Stephen Miller said.

«Although finding that the Supreme Court's McDonnell decision issued after Silver's conviction required a different legal instruction to the jury, the Second Circuit also held that the evidence presented at the trial was sufficient to prove all the crimes charged against Silver, even under the new legal standard,» Kim's statement reads, in part.

«As the New York State Supreme Court considers the serious voting - access and counting issues in the 13th Congressional District election, we are pleased to welcome Marty Connor to lead our legal team,» Mr. Espaillat's spokesman, Ibrahim Khan, said in a press release.

The legal issues are now before the court to be resolved.»

5.3 All the people of Rep. of Cyprus (even the President of RoC) MUST apply to the LEGAL SYSTEM of Northern Cyprus about an issue related with north Cyprus in order to take their cases to the ECtHR: ECtHR 04.01.2011 decision: «the procedure before the Immovable Property Commission («IPC»), and further appeal to the «TRNC» High Administrative Court, provided for in Law 67/2005, were to be regarded as «domestic remedies» of the respondent State and that NO GROUND OF EXEMPTION has been established in that regard».

«I object to the complete evisceration of all legal issues we have won throughout the years in the courts,» said Judy Bachman, president of Citizens Equal Rights Alliance, which is suing the federal government over Oneida nation trust land.

10 a.m., the Committee on Women's Issues will meet with the Committee on Courts and Legal Services to hold an oversight hearing on the effectiveness of human trafficking intervention cCourts and Legal Services to hold an oversight hearing on the effectiveness of human trafficking intervention courtscourts.

A statement issued by the organisation, which is also a centre for information gathering said although the matter is in court it is expedient for government to aid in the legal processes to exonerate itself from the bad press.

Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard has given his party until Thursday to lift his suspension or face legal action at the High Court in a legal letter issued at the party's headquarters.

Other high - up races are in states that have had a similar history with the issue — Hawaii, where the first court ruling legalizing gay marriage came down in 1993, and Iowa, where a judge ruled gay marriage legal last year.

Given the high costs and complexity of disability litigation, the issue of enforcing legal rights that protect against discrimination under the DDA has courted controversy since the act was introduced.

It is difficult to comprehend the EC's decision to introduce new issues that have the potential to instigate new legal suits, which the Supreme Court in its lucid ruling and extraordinary consequential orders, had sought to abate — after the Court has heeded to the EC's pleadings and issued pragmatic orders for management of the process.